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    <body><![CDATA[This book is haunting.  And gorgeous.  A really great examination of friendship, sexuality, love and loss, all told through a cruise up the Yangtze River, which naturally exposes some truths and questions about China and the modern Chinese culture versus traditional Chinese culture.  I was enrapture...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3245966">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Michelle Richmond is a great local writer (she lives in my old neighborhood in San Francisco).  Look into all of her book!  This is one of her earlier ones, and it is great!  Read it!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Still worth reading. Not as good as her other novel, &quot;Year of Fog.&quot; Beautiful details and again her writing style is something that you can get lost in. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nervy and troubling and erotic, this tale of a woman traveling down the Yangtze to scatter the ashes of a former lover is infused with life/death-past/future conflicts and is a kind of Zen koan, a literary bookend to Lost in Translation. We are all lost in love, and only one outcome is ever certain....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21924165">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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